Scaevola humilus

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information

Wikipedia links:       Angiosperms  > Eudicots > Asterids >  Campanulids > Asterales > Goodeniaceae > Scaevola humilus             

Other links:     https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Scaevola~humilis#:~:text=Family%20Goodeniaceae-,Scaevola%20humilis%20R.Br.,towards%20base%2C%20margins%20coarsely%20toothed 

Plant  information

Common name:       Sandplain Fanflower 

Conservation status:   ...

Etymology:   

• Scaevus in Latin means 'left-handed'

• The Latin humilis, meaning 'low'

Flowers:                  

• Flowers sessile in terminal leafy spikes

• Bracts lanceolate, acute to acuminate, 9-20 mm long, mostly entire

• Bracteoles narrow-lanceolate, 5-7 mm long, pubescent

• Sepals broadly deltoid, to 0.5 mm long, pubescent, connate at the base; corolla blue, 10-15 mm long, densely pubescent outside, bearded inside the throat; lobes narrowly oblong, 5-8 mm long, with broad subentire wings

• Style 5-7 mm long, glabrous

• Indusium depressed-obovate, to 1 mm long, c. 2 mm wide, with a posterior tuft of purplish bristles and long white bristles around the orifice

• Ovary 1.5-2 mm long, completely 2-celled, puberulent

• Flowering time is August to October

Fruit:                         

• Ovoid, 3-4 mm long

• 2-celled

Leaves:         

• Sessile, obovate to elliptic, somewhat attenuate at the base, obtuse to acute

• l-4 cm long, 3-15 mm wide

• Coarsely dentate to entire, pubescent with short antrorse hairs

Stem & branches: 

•  Terete, green, finely pubescent, ascending, sometimes slightly woody at the base

Roots:         

Habit:        

• Perennial herb to 50 cm high

Habitat:   

Distribution:                  

•  Native to Australia

• S.Aust.: FR, EA, EP, NL, MU, YP

Additional notes:     

Sources of information:

• (2023)